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Join MGO in celebrating another successful year at our holiday party on Tuesday, December 11th. It will take place from 6.00-7.30pm at the 310 Gallery (a.k.a. Gallery Art Bar) at 310 14th Street in downtown Oakland.

The event is free to current paid members as well as all who join or renew on the spot, and is $10 for non-members. See you there!

A huge thank you to all the candidates, MGO members, and audience members who participated in MGO’s three endorsement meetings on September 28th, October 5th, and October 12th! In particular, MGO is deeply grateful to all the candidates for their availability on Friday nights filled with campaign and personal priorities.

MGO is pleased to announce its slate of endorsed candidates for the November 6, 2018 election. Any races not listed are ones in which MGO made no endorsement. An endorsement requires 60% of the votes cast for that particular race. With so many impressive candidates, it is with regret that MGO can only endorse one candidate per race.

City of OaklandOakland Mayor: Libby SchaafOakland City Council, District 2: Abel Guillén

RegionalBART Board of Directors, District 4: Robert RaburnPeralta Community College District, Area 5: Cindi ReissAlameda County Assessor: Phong La

Also, many thanks to MGO’s Judy Cox, Gary Sirbu, Steve Statler, and Annie Flores for their work in organizing these endorsement meetings and in keeping MGO running, and to Arlinda Befort, Linda Olvera, and Karan Balaji in helping count votes!

Join MGO for our September general membership meeting on Friday, September 14th at 7pm in the Thornhill Room of the Montclair Presbyterian Church. We are honored to welcome Vincent Crudele of the City of Oakland and Sue Piper of the Oakland Firesafe Council for a discussion on wildfire prevention and vegetation management in Oakland. We will also elect a new set of board directors for the 2018-2019 program year.

Don’t forget to save the following dates for our endorsement meetings for the November election. We will use all three dates and we will vote at each meeting on the races discussed, instead of saving and combining the endorsement vote for the final meeting. All endorsement meetings take place at 7pm in the (larger) Family Room of the Montclair Presbyterian Church:

Friday, September 28th

Friday, October 5th

Friday, October 12th

If you have not been a paid MGO member in the last two years, you must join 20 days before an endorsement meeting in order to vote. If you have been an MGO member in the last two years, you may renew up until any endorsement meeting. Join or renew here.

MGO is thrilled to announce that state Sen. Nancy Skinner has agreed to meet with us and provide an update on her legislative work, including:

SB 827 – housing density near transit

SB 1025 – sentencing for drug offences

This MGO general membership meeting takes place Thursday, July 19th at 7:15pm. This marks the first summer meeting that MGO will have held in recent memory.

Also, please note the new meeting venue and time:

Thursday, July 19, 2018 – 7:15pm

East Bay for Everyone

2044 Franklin Street

Oakland, CA 94612

Many thanks to East Bay for Everyone for graciously offering to host this event. Also, many thanks to Sen. Skinner for taking the time out of her busy schedule to meet with MGO once again. And, without hesitation, many thanks to Gary Sirbu for helping arrange this meeting with Sen. Skinner, and to Tasha Henneman and Chris Martin for working with MGO.